specialty

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English

Alternative forms

• speciality (Commonwealth)

Etymology

specialize +‎ -ty

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈspɛʃəlti/, X-SAMPA: /"spES@lti:/

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Noun

specialty (plural specialties)

1. (North America) That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.

   They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.

   • Charles Kingsley

     Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty, their pet subject.

2. (obsolete) particularity
   • Shakespeare

     Specialty of rule hath been neglected.

3. A particular or peculiar case.
4. (law) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.

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   • Shakespeare

     Let specialties be therefore drawn between us.

Related terms

• specialist
• subspecialty
• subspecialist

Translations

That in which one specializes

• Arabic: اختصاص (ar) (ixtiṣāṣ) m
• Armenian: մասնագիտություն (hy) (masnagitut’yun) 
• Catalan: especialitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專業 (cmn), 专业 (cmn) (zhuānyè), 專長 (cmn), 专长 (cmn) (zhuāncháng) (special skill), 擅長 (cmn), 擅长 (cmn) (shàncháng) (special skill)

• Dutch: specialiteit f
• Finnish: erikoisala, spesialiteetti
• French: spécialité (fr) f
• German: Spezialität (de) f
• Greek: ειδικότητα (el) (eidikótita) f 
• Hungarian: különlegesség (hu), specialitás (hu)

• Icelandic: sérréttur m
• Italian: specialità (it) f
• Japanese: 専門 (ja) (せんもん, semmon)
• Korean: 특산물 (ko) (teuksanmul)
• Norwegian: spesialitet
• Persian: تخصص (fa) (taxassos)
• Polish: specjalność f, specjalizacja f
• Portuguese: especialidade (pt) f
• Russian: специальность (ru) (speciálʹnostʹ) f , специализация (ru) (specializácija) f 
• Spanish: especialidad (es) f
• Swedish: specialitet c, specialité c